Monday, February 4, 2013

Escape from New York

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

“We’re gonna have their best manleading the way from the head up—on the hood of my car!!!”—Isaac Hayes the Duke______________________Snake Plissken—With his big black tattooStretchin’ from his dick—Up past his bellybuttonHe had the killer instinct—Of his fighter pilot father_________________________The hot-bloodedness of his—Redhead mulatto motherClothe it in drag, you get—Haughty haute coutureNo Escape from New York—Not for Snake Plissken______________________Ravaged by crime—All of Manhattan Island“Once you go in—You don’t get out”No turning back once—They dump you inside__________________Snake ends up at the Olde—Manhattan Musical ReviewBurned-out old Fox Theater—Doing drag with Ernst BorgnineSinging “Bandstand Boogie”—And “Everybody’s Going to New York”_____________________With Lee Van Cleef & Donald Pleasance—Harry Dean Stanton & Isaac HayesBreakneck burlesque—Thrilling high-octane dragPost-apocalyptic gender-fucks—Edge of your seat cabaret swan songs__________________Kurt Russell in post-Weimar Hades—Gets mind-blowing Bijou blowjobsNo Escape from New York—Not for Snake PlisskenDebussy’s “Engulfed Cathedral”—Flooding all of New York City